If Christmas is about the birth of Jesus Christ, would it make sense to set baby Jesus in front of a huge crucifix that serves as the backdrop of a crib?
The majority of us would definitely find it contradictory.
Not so, says Sr Agnese Zammit, a cloister nun at St Ursola’s monastery in Valletta, who explains the reasoning behind the set-up that the nuns have at the monastery.
She also shows timesofmalta.com another crib, the grotto of which is made of walnut shells, and explains a sweet custom that they have when placing the pasturi (nativity figurines).